Re: International statistics on violence

[Andrew Percy <A.Percy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Isabel

You may be interested in 'Delinquent Behavior among 
young people in the Western World' edited by 
J.Junger-Tas, G.J. Terlouw and M.W. Klein (1994). 

It is a cross-national self-report delinquency survey 
of young people in 13 western countries including the 
US. It is published by Kugler Publications, P.O.Box 
97747, 2509 GC The Hague, The Netherlands. 

 

On Sat, 28 Aug 1999 10:18:23 -0400 Isabel Wolock 
<iwolock@rci.rutgers.edu> wrote:


> I'm looking for comparisons of US with other industrialized nations on rates
> of youth violence (youth as perpetrators and as victims) as well as
> comparative data on domestic violence. I've looked at UNICEF reports and
> other UN sources but have not been very successful.If anyone can help me out
> with sources I'd very much appreciate it.
> 
> Isabel Wolock
> e-mail:  iwolock@rci.rutgers.edu
> 

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Andrew Percy
Centre of Child Care Research
The Queen's University of Belfast
A.Percy@qub.ac.uk